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"How Dare Signal Protect Its Users"
(With Strong Encrypted Communication)
Asks Speaker / Advisor Of FBI, WEF (World Economic Forum) etc (Reid Blackman)
#News #privacy #HumanRights #ReidBlackman #FOSS #FBI #LawEnforcement #Signal #MassSurveillance #WorldEconomicForum #WEF #metadata #databrokers #Fascism
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/03/fbi-advisor-claims-signals-refusal-to-collect-metadata-is-bad-for-everyone/
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#Police Rely On #WarOnDrugs To Increase Budgets (documented).
#Drugwar: decades of infringements to ALL person #Rights, #Constitutional / otherwise.
Court precedents erode what is left of your rights in the future (most occur in said cases).
#MassSurveillance: It's not for your safety. Never has been.
#HumanRights #USA
https://asamnews.com/2022/11/07/sacramento-utility-shares-private-customer-information-targeting-asian-american-residents-allegedly-growing-marijuana-cannabis-illegal-data-sharing/
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BMW have successfully lobbied for their customers to receive dedicated spaces in parking lots
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent its latest overview of notorious piracy markets to the US Government. The Hollywood group, which also represents Netflix, lists a broad variety of online piracy threats.
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats to US Govt
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats to US Govt
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The people running the state of Nebraska must be really happy Facebook is such an easy scapegoat. The State uses a warrant to keep tabs on a minors reproductive organs and FB takes the majority of the heat because they didn't stick their own necks out in the process? Reactionaries have it so easy these days...
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Democrats' Cowardice and Complicity in the Post-Roe World https://theintercept.com/2022/07/05/roe-wade-abortion-democrats-planned-parenthood/ - source : Natasha Lennard
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Had to take the bus into town today, and wore a kilt. Some Delores decided to take issue; which sadly I'm used to. "Why are you wearing a skirt?!" and so on. As I said, used to it (and big scary white dude, so I have some privilege to wield), so I'm calmly addressing it with her
But then she said "well how am I supposed to explain that to my kid?!", and friends, I didn't have to say a thing, because the most awesome Black lady jumped in. She turned to her kid (I'd guess roughly 13 years old) and said "hey, why is he allowed to wear a skirt?"
Kid: "he's grown enough to wear whatever the fuck he wants"
Mom: "see?! Ain't hard ma'am"
Delores huffed but that was pretty much the end 🤣
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Unless you already have enough money to live solely off the interest, you're not a capitalist. You're merely a supporter of capitalists.
To wildly misquote John Mulaney, Capitalism is a hooker, "and you are an idiot who fell in love with her. She's not gonna do anything else for you. It's done."
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fuck yeah to all the artists joining the fediverse. this is for you.
You may be seeing this a lot for the next couple days so I apologize for the repetition. As @Gargron said, if you want your friends to try Mastodon you should direct them to https://joinmastodon.org rather than one of the big instances directly. It will potentially help spread out the load of all the new users as well as provide some on boarding to help people find awesome services like #QOTO!
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So many new people around here 😲
Welcome everyone!
I am #Tusky, an Android app for Mastodon! (I work with other server software like Pleroma and Pixelfed as well, but 🤫)
#introduction
Haven't had much time for social media lately, but I thought I'd check in and say hi to all the new people. Welcome!
If you're looking for people to follow check out https://communitywiki.org/trunk
Also @FediFollows @feditips, and @FediVideos are accounts run by a real person who posts all manner of tips, videos, and follow suggestions :)
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Alright, so I'm on Mastodon now.
hibernating
#nobot / #noarchive
Joined Jul 2021
